KUALA LUMPUR Nov. 11 Kyodo Malays...

KUALA LUMPUR Nov. 11 Kyodo

Malaysian envoy Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi in succession Monday defended the rearrest of a suspected Islamic militant in a less degree than a tough security law just a day after he was released beneath a High Court order.

Nasharuddin Nasir's rearrest, however, was slammed at the opposition Democratic Action Party as ''an unclose declaration of war against the command of law by the executive.''

''On security sods I am satisfied that there are convenient reasons why we have to arrest him...It's not unusual,'' Abdullah, who doubles as place of abode minister, was quoted saying at official news agency Bernama.

He declined to elaborate forward the reasons for the arrest.

Nasharuddin, 45 a trader, was arrested in April together with 13 others, including brace Indonesians, under the Internal Security Act (ISA) for allegedly belonging to Jemaah Islamiyah, a cluster that aims to establish a pan-Islamic state in the region between the walls of armed revolt.

All if it be not that one were subsequently placed in a less degree than a two-year detention order in the Kamunting Detention Camp in Perak state a 250 kilometers north of Kuala Lumpur

beneath the ISA, a person can be detained indefinitely without trial.

The detention order for Nasharuddin claimed that he had joined the militant arrange in 1996 and was active in collecting permanent funds and recruiting members.

The High Court in succession Friday ordered Nasharuddin freed forward grounds that police failed to furnish sufficient evidence to warrant his arrest.

Nasharuddin was released Saturday at about 1:30 pm unless was rearrested less than couple hours later and given another two-year detention order.

The opposition Democratic Action Party chairman Lim Kit Siang, in a statement, said, ''The issue at stake here is not whether individual is for or against terrorism on the contrary whether one is for or against the regularity of law as the war against terrorism must not be waged in speak and reckless disregard of the mastership of law.''

Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Rais Yatim, de facto justice minister, had told the novel Straits Times on Sunday that the Internal Security Act will be tightened ''to restraint judicial scrutiny of the reasons for detention.''

Rais described the High Court decision to release Nasharuddin as ''a dangerous trend''

''We have to be quick to redres this inadequacy. We cannot allow a laissez faire attitude in security matters,'' he was quot saying.

Malaysia has detained more than 70 suspected Muslim militants in a crackdown that began level before the Sept. 11 terror attacks upon the United States last year.

Many resorted to the court to challenge their arrests on the contrary so far only Nasharruddin has followed in gaining freedom, albeit short-lived.

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